YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS UNION — ANNUAL REPORT. II9 



Grimshaw and W. C. Scott as Honorary Assistant Secretaries, each 

 of whom has taken charge of a definite branch of work which would 

 otherwise have fallen as of old upon the Honorary Secretaries. 



The Presidency of the Union for 1888 has been offered to 

 and accepted by a well-known Yorkshire geologist, intimately 

 connected with the district in which the present annual meeting is 

 being held, and in Mr. Wilfrid H. Hudleston, M.A., F.R.S., who is 

 one of the Secretaries of the Geological Society of London and an 

 Editor of the Geological Magazine, and whose monographic papers 

 on the palaeontology of the Oolitic Rocks of Yorkshire are so well- 

 known, we have a worthy successor in the series of distinguished 

 Yorkshiremen who have for the past ten years presided over the 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. 



In conclusion, the Executive have to express a regret, which will 

 be unanimously shared by the members, that Sir Ralph Payne-Gallvvey 

 could not honour the Union by accepting the office of President for 

 the customary second year. They have also to express gratification 

 at the success which has, under Sir Ralph's presidency, attended the 

 proceedings of the Union during the past year. 



April 1888. 



